Psylocke

Psylocke
Series	Marvel Comics
Age	Unknown
Birthday	Unknown
Sex	Female
Species	Mutant Human
Height	5′11″/1.8 m
Weight	155 lbs/70.31 kg
Alignment	Neutral Good

Background

Full Name: Elizabeth "Betsy" Braddock

Aliases: Psylocke, Lady Mandarin, Lady Britain, Captain Britain

Powers & Abilities

• Telepathy: Possessing formidable mental powers, Braddock has the ability to interact with, affect and manipulate the minds of other sentient beings over distances. When employing her telepathy, a distinct butterfly-like image often materializes around her face. When facing adversaries, she tends to use her telepathy aggressively.
  • Psychic Knife: Described as the focused totality of her psychic powers, Braddock can create razor-sharp psychic blades on her fists by intensely channeling and focusing psychic energy. These blades can be plunged directly into the minds of her targets, causing immense disruption and potentially lethal effects.
  • Psychic Blasts: By projecting powerful psychic force bolts, Braddock is capable of inflicting pain, confusion, unconsciousness, or even death upon her victims.
  • Astral Projection: By projecting her consciousness from her physical body, Braddock can traverse astral planes and even the physical world. On the astral plane, she can mentally create psychic objects and manipulate the aspects of her environment, including battles against other psychics. Under the influence of the Crimson Dawn, her astral form was totally undetectable.
  • Telepathic Shadow: With the telepathic suggestion of being ignored by others, Braddock can mask her presence from others. She can extend these defenses to others around her as well. Her abilities can go undetected and are very difficult to track, even by very powerful telepaths such as Shadow King.
  • Illusions: Braddock can mentally fabricate illusory sensations, experiences, events and memories that have no factual correlation on the minds of others.
  • Mind Control: By mentally imposing her will over the minds of others, Braddock is ultimately capable of controlling their actions as a puppeteer.
    • Paralysis: More specifically, Braddock is able to induce temporary mental and physical paralysis.
    • Telepathic Amnesia: Braddock can affect past memories of others and erase any awareness of particular memories or cause total amnesia.
  • Telepathic Detection: Enhanced psychic senses enable Braddock to track other sentient beings in her immediate vicinity by their unique psychic emanations, especially if they pose a threat to her well-being. She also can scan large areas and track her vicinity, as well as detect the psyches of the inhabitants of a city to learn of their location and condition.
  • Telepathic Immunity: After being resurrected by her older brother Jamie, Betsy Braddock exhibited immunity to certain psychic abilities such as mind reading and illusions. However, in some incidents, she has been shown to be prone to be affected by other telepaths.
• Telekinesis: Ever since exchanging abilities with Jean Grey, Braddock has been able to psychically manipulate and control the physical aspects of matter, allowing her to move and levitate objects and living beings. Although she can move objects from a distance and fly as other telekinetics do, she has shown little inclination to do either in combat situations. Her telekinesis are described to be robust, in the sense she found easier to use her telekinesis in forceful ways, usually by crafting energy weapons.
  • Telekinetic Weapons: Braddock's telekinesis has great versatility, as she has used it to construct psychic weapons that damage a target either physically, mentally or both at some point. She has shown skill in using creating multiple types of psychic weapons that differ in size and power, which she uses in combat. Her telekinetic manifestations produce visible radiance in the physical world, which can be used as a makeshift light source in areas of darkness.
    • Telekinetic Sword / Katana: Braddock can manifest a telekinetic sword composed of raw psychic energy at will, which functions to disrupt neural pathways or cut through matter with precision. Her telekinetic sword is strong enough to harm beings more powerful than herself. When inhabiting Kwannon's body, her sword usually manifested as a katana. After returning to her original body, she produced a sword more similar to a European knight's sword in its fashion, often used alongside a strong telekinetic shield.
    • Telekinetic Crossbow/Bow and Arrows: Showing more versatility when it comes to her psychic constructs, Braddock can create energy bows and arrows, which she uses to attack her targets from a distance.
    • Telekinetic Spiked Flail: One manifestation of Braddock's telekinetic abilities was once a spiked flail which she used to destroy a wall.
  • Force Field: Braddock is capable of creating telekinetic shields of all sizes to deflect / decelerate incoming attacks. She can alter their sizes and strengths to her will. More recently, she has been shown a preference to shape her main field as a solid shield that resembles those wielded by medieval knights.
  • Flight: Personalizing her telekinetic abilities in such a way to propel herself through the air, Braddock can fly at variable speeds, an ability she declares to enjoy exploring a lot.
  • Concussive Blasts: Braddock can release powerful blasts or bursts made of telekinetic force that on the lowest level can stun targets but on the highest level can destroy entire mountains.
  • Telekinetically Enhanced Condition: Using her telekinesis, Braddock is able to enhance her speed, strength, agility, and fighting skills to superhuman levels.
  • Telekinetic Invisibility: By using her telekinesis to skew light around her body, Braddock has shown the ability render herself invisible.
• Dream-based Precognition: Braddock's psychic abilities originally manifested as precognitive dreams. She was able to predict that her twin brother Brian would be attacked by Lord Hawk and that the Reavers would kill her and her X-Men teammates. It is unknown if this ability remains in the present.
• Reality Warp Immunity: After being resurrected by her older brother Jamie, Betsy Braddock was changed at a quantum level in order be resilient to the multiversal entity called the First Fallen. Her personal being gave her immunity to being affected by different forms of magic, telepathy, and alterations to the space-time continuum, as well as imperceptibility to similarly empowered beings. Apparently, she has lost such resistance, considering she has been affected by the actions of reality shapers, such as Legion, Proteus, and X-Man.
• Otherworlder: As a half-Otherworlder, Betsy Braddock has the potential to manifest additional abilities unusual to ordinary humans due to her unique origin.
• Master Martial Artist: Originally, Braddock had advanced training as a fighter from S.T.R.I.K.E.. As an X-Man, she was taught in combat in constant training sessions, with Wolverine and other X-Men. After swapping bodies with Kwannon, she acquired all the fighting knowledge the deadly assassin had, being classified as a master martial artist, though the specific fighting arts she had mastered have never been revealed. Presumably, as a ninja, she is skilled in various ninjutsu techniques. Even though she is known as a ninja and worked for the Hand as one, her fighting skills and techniques far surpass those of the average Hand Ninja or Crimson Dawn Undercloak. Her skills have been said to rival those of a ninja grandmaster. As an Exile, Braddock has also received additional training from Sabretooth and Ogun that vastly developed her skills in this area. She is also very well versed in the use of ninja weapons, stealth methods, silent movement, infiltration, concealment, escape and evasion, covert methods, ninja espionage, and ninja acrobatics. After returning to her original body, Braddock has assumed different methods to battle, being closer to those of medieval combat.
• Master Telepathic Combatant: As a telepath, Braddock takes advantage of her powers in a fight, by, for instance, reading her opponents' movements seconds before they make them, giving her the opportunity to counter-attack faster. She can also use her telepathy to mask her presence from other people, humans and super-humans alike. She can create telepathic illusions to distract and incapacitate her enemies while fighting them. Braddock has declared she has fewer inhibitions about executing enemies if necessary.
• Advanced Telekinetic Combatant: As a telekinetic, Braddock can use her powers to augment her strength and speed, which made her fighting skills strong enough to outmatch other superhumanly strong opponents, like Sabretooth.
• Trained Pilot: Braddock worked as a charter pilot, being experienced in controlling airplanes. On several occasions, she was tasked of piloting the X-Men Blackbird.

Equipment

• Captain Britain's Uniform: As Captain Britain, Braddock wears a special magical uniform that provides her several abilities. The uniform is used by all members of the Captain Britain Corps and it acts as a beacon and a battery for the mystic energies of Otherworld. Braddock can cast the uniform only when she is in possession of either the Amulet of Power (currently destroyed) or the Starlight Sword. Braddock's first Captain Britain uniform had been originally worn by the corpsman Kaptain Briton.
  • Flight: Captain Britain has the ability to self propel herself through the air.
  • Superhuman Strength: Wearing a Captain Britain uniform, Braddock acquires increased strength. The limits of her strength are not assessed and remain unrevealed. As an example of her augmented strength, she was once able to destroy firearms with her bare hands.
  • Superhuman Durability: As Captain Britain, it seems that Braddock manifests enhanced durability. She was able to jump from the top of the Braddock Lighthouse falling several meters to the ground with no injuries. Assuming she manifests similar abilities her brother did when wearing Captain Britain's uniform, it might be assumed this is due to the uniform emitting a surrounding force field over her body.
• Starlight Sword: To enter the Otherworld contest, as one of the Swordbearers of Krakoa, Braddock tricked Saturnyne into forging the Starlight Sword, a replacement for the Amulet of Right as the conduit of her Captain Britain's powers. The Starlight Sword was crafted from a piece of the Starlight Citadel, made of an unknown and weightless material. The wielder of the sword steps into the role of a champion of the Otherworld.
• Shurayuki: Psylocke once owned a katana named Shurayuki, that was forged in Japan a thousand years ago and given to her by an unrevealed friend. She used to telekinetically charge her katana with psychic energy. It is unknown if Braddock kept her katana after returning to her original body.

Weaknesses

• Lack of Skill: Having been imbued with huge telekinetic powers later in her career as an adventurer, Braddock struggled to exhibit fine control over her abilities. Although her power levels were high enough to destroy mountains, she found herself facing difficulties in telekinetically affecting smaller objects for more delicate tricks. It is not clear if Braddock still has limitations concerning her fine telekinetic control.
• Telepathy / Telekinesis Balance: The strength and stability of Braddock's telepathic and telekinetic powers is said to depend on how much she is using the other, since using both at once makes it hard for her to focus and lowers the level of power.